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By Alan McKinlay,Ken Starkey,Ken P Starkey

This quantity attracts jointly serious tests of Michel Foucault's contribution to our realizing of the making and remaking of the trendy organization.

The quantity offers a beneficial precis of Foucault's contribution to association conception, which additionally demanding situations the conventions of conventional organizational research. through employing Foucauldian recommendations corresponding to self-discipline, surveillance and power/knowledge, the authors shed new mild at the genesis of the trendy association and lift clean questions on association idea. The bureaucratic profession is, for instance, analyzed as a disciplinary gadget, a mechanism that seeks to change rational selection instead of constrain our bodies. This increases questions about Foucault's linking of the trendy organization's delivery with the enlightenment. different contributions overview the impression of totalizing managerial discourses and the boundaries and possiblities of resistance, and query the profound pessimism of Foucault. the amount concludes via interpreting the consequences of Foucault's later paintings within which he means that everyone is a lot freer than they feel.

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